14 Common Trees 



Dad is, as he should be, a chum and companion to the boy. 



Regular Dads teach their boys thru long walks in God's great out-of- 

 doors laboratory, many of Nature's mysteries. 



Trees, as forest cover for wild life; trees, as protectors of our hillsides 

 from erosion; trees, as retarders of the run-off from the rains; trees, as 

 helping to keep our streams more even in their flow; trees, as keeping 

 more water all the time in our streams. Therefore, more and better 

 swimming holes, better skating, better fishing. 



Let's be regular Dads and each year go into partnership with Sonny in 

 planting trees on some idle acre. 



To the tomorrows, made better for the children of the tomorrows, by 

 idle acres set to work growing trees for Sonny, is a part of my mission, 

 for I want to be a regular Dad. How about you, Daddy? 



John D. Clarke, 

 President, New York State Forestry Assn. 



FORESTS FOR RECREATION 



One of the fundamental things in forestry and in deriving the greatest 

 pleasure from out-door recreation is to be able to identify what we 

 observe. THE COMMON TREES OF NEW YORK ought to be a great 

 stimulus to all the people who are interested in out-door life, in having 

 some sort of a pocket guide that will enable them to identify our com- 

 mon trees. 



This publication will also do much to interest and instruct people 

 along forestry lines, because when we have identified a tree we will com- 

 mence to think of why we get different species of trees on different char- 

 acters of soil and we will want to learn why trees grow in mixture and 

 why some trees develop one way and other trees grow along other lines. 

 It is going to open up a great new field of Nature study to a great many 

 people, and it is not only going to result in their obtaining knowledge in 

 this, to them, new Nature field, but it is going to interest them more in 

 outdoor life and make them think of the uses of forests, the protection 

 of forests from fire and from disease and no doubt lead them to the study 

 of the growth of trees, the question of reforesting idle lands and other 

 things that go along with real forest development. 



C. R. Pettis, 

 Supt. Division of Lands and Forests, 



(Mr. Petti j died on January 29, 1027) 



EVERYBODY SHOULD LOVE TREES 



"In the corner of my dooryard is a maple tree said to be the largest 

 maple in the State. You would be surprised how many persons stop to 

 look at that tree and wonder about its age. The tree men who repaired 

 it recently said it was two hundred and fifty years old. 



"Have you ever thought about the story such a tree could tell if it 

 had the power of vocal expression? It would speak about Geprge Wash- 

 ington and the Continental Army passing along that roadside. It would 

 speak about the British Army. It would tell marvelous tales of the 

 Indians. There is romance as well as war associated with its shade. 

 Unnumbered thousands of birds have nested in its branches. 



"Everybody should be a friend of the woods. Good health is to be 

 had by walking under the trees. Good eyesight is to be developed by 

 gazing into their branches. Good thoughts will be cultivated by the calm 

 and peace of the forest. 



"We should plant trees along the highways. We should shade our 

 homes with beautiful trees. They are an inspiration to everybody." 



Hon. Royal S. Copeland, 

 U. S. Senator from New York. 



